''The Toff Goes to Market'' is a 1942

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by the British writer

John Creasey John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several charac ...

. It was the eighth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective

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. It was one of a number of novels produced in the era that featured the booming wartime black market as a major plotline.Roodhouse p.230 It has been republished on a number of occasions.

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* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * Roodhouse, Mark. ''Black Market Britain: 1939-1955''. OUP Oxford, 2013. 1942 British novels Novels by John Creasey British crime novels British thriller novels Novels set in London John Long Ltd books {{1940s-thriller-novel-stub